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Name .:. Metallica - 72 Seasons
Genre : Metal
Source : CDDA
Type .:. Album
Artist : Metallica
Label : EMI (Universal Music)
Titel : 72 Seasons
Tracks : 12
Playtime : 77:14
Size : 147,23MB
Encoder : VBRNEW - LAME3.100 - V0
Quality : VBR kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Bitrate : avg. 266kbps
[ Tracklist ]
01.72 Seasons 07:40
02.Shadows Follow 06:12
03.Screaming Suicide 05:31
04.Sleepwalk My Life Away 06:56
05.You Must Burn! 07:03
06.Lux aeterna 03:22
07.Crown of Barbed Wire 05:49
08.Chasing Light 06:45
09.If Darkness Had a Son 06:36
10.Too Far Gone? 04:34
11.Room of Mirrors 05:34
12.Inamorata 11:12
Total 77:14 Min
The first 72 seasons û 18 years, converted to real
money û of a personÆs life is the period during
which one goes through the formative experiences
that help define who they are. It was at this point
in their own timelines that Lars Ulrich and James
Hetfield came together to form Metallica in 1981.
How far we are from there now. Forty-two years have
passed since then, and an even four decades since
they emerged to the world at large with Kill ÆEm
All. ItÆs even been longer than 72 seasons since Rob
ænew-new kidÆ Trujillo joined the ranks.
And if weÆre counting in seasons, Metallica are over
160 old, and into a golden autumn. The men
themselves are beginning to pass their individual
60th years. As such a thing raises its own questions
about what you can expect from Metallica so far into
the game (a game they long ago won anyway), perhaps
the most rewarding thing listening to their 11th
studio album is the rough balance between the honed
muscle and worldly wisdom of whatÆs now effectively
a lifetime as the worldÆs biggest metal band û 32
years, if we count from The Black Album û and the
high-on-testosterone-and-NWOBHM energy of the kids
who made Kill ÆEm All.
The first peep, Lux aeterna, may have implied this
was a more openly retro-looking work than it
actually is, with its openly Diamond Head-snogging
riff and Papa HetÆs æLightning the nationÆ lyrical
nod, as well as harking back to WhiplashÆs æFull
speed or nothingÆ. Fun as that all is, itÆs
refreshing that this isnÆt the whole story here.
As with Hardwiredà To Self-Destruct, 72 Seasons
often finds the band stripped right back to a rough
core. ThereÆs a jam-room physicality in Shadows
FollowÆs thrusting riffs, the one-two punches of the
moody Chasing Light and doomy Crown Of Barbed Wire,
the thrashing mania of the opening title-track, and
the NWOBHM nods of Too Far Gone?. Not that theyÆve
become the Ramones, not with so many riffs and
stop-start stabs throwing the songs round so many
corners, but the performance here is one you can
hear sweating like a boxer.
ThereÆs thrash and speed, just as there is stadium-
sized, Enter Sandman-ish riffs, and the odd payment
of respect to the doom of influences like Trouble,
often in the same song. On the albumÆs home stretch,
thereÆs shades of something approaching Rush on the
intro to Room Of Mirrors, while Inamorata closes
things out with the albumÆs most interesting, proggy
melody in its fat groove, almost like Baroness.
These comparisons are all fleeting and in the ear of
the beholder, though: mostly what this sounds like
is Metallica celebrating being Metallica.
For James HetfieldÆs part, there are lyrics here
that are some of his most black-cloud since the
bitter cynicism of àAnd Justice For All. On
Inamorata, he describes how, æMisery she needs me /
Oh but I need her moreÆ. 72 Seasons sees the
admission that æMad seasons take their tollÆ,
wearing a æNew maskÆ and having æCompletely lost
control,Æ before Too Far Gone? comes with the
unvarnished assertion that æI am desperation / I am
isolationÆ. Though his bandmates recently insisted
to K! that the lyrics are ultimately positive, and
the album closes with the raised-fist defiance that
æMisery, sheÆs not what IÆm living forÆ, itÆs a set
of words that very much Go There in order to come
back.
At an hour-and-a-quarter, like its predecessor, 72
Seasons is a lot to cram in in one go, a marathon.
But it slaps consistently, and hard. Moreover, it
sounds like a band caught up in their own energy, at
times as if theyÆre unable to stop until the songÆs
ready to finally let them. And though 72 Seasons
isnÆt a game-changer, itÆs this that says the most
important thing here: Metallica being Metallica and
letting fly with all theyÆve got is still a mighty,
charged-up, exciting, cathartic, deadly thing.
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